{"id":788996,"date":"2026-07-28T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:05:11","slug":"tokyo-government-dating-app-achieves-265-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788996\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo government dating app achieves 265 marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">TOKYO \u2013 A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an artificial intelligence-powered dating app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/tokyo-government-to-launch-dating-app-to-boost-birth-rate?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">launched by the Tokyo government in 2024<\/a> to lift Japan\u2019s low birth rate, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">TOKYO Enmusubi went live in September 2024, after a survey found that around 70 per cent of people interested in marriage were not actively engaging in matchmaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">To overcome this reluctance and ensure that only people interested in tying the knot joined, those signing up had to prove that they were legally single and pass an online interview, among other conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">As at June 30, the app had 16,000 registered members \u2013 whittled down from around 36,000 applicants \u2013 and 760 couples in \u201cserious relationships\u201d, according to government data released in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A total of 265 couples had married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The government quoted one woman with the pseudonym \u201cTurtle\u201d as saying she tried the app \u201cas a last chance\u201d as she approached her 40th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cAfter going on several blind dates, I met my current husband at the end of August, and we started a serious relationship in mid-September,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cI accepted his proposal at the end of December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The number of babies born in Japan to Japanese nationals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/japans-fertility-falls-for-a-10th-year-despite-government-push?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">hit a new record low of 671,236 in 2025<\/a>, in the 10th consecutive annual decline, government data showed in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Deaths were more than double that at 1.6 million, while the fertility rate edged down 0.01 percentage points to 1.14, although marriages inched higher, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry numbers showed. 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